Replies to post #67475 on Politics and Money

[ergo sum]

Do you have the statistics on baseball bats!

[n4807g]

Nancy Lanza was delusional. Her son was mentally ill. There's no way she should have been allowing him access to any firearm and probably should have been concerned that he had any association with weapons, including the fantasy world where he slaughtered fictional characters in a video game...

Restrict access to so called assault rifles (want to shoot an "assault rifle" go to a licensed firing range and rent one for an hour), limit magazine capacity to no more then 5 rounds, do a much more rigorous background check on anyone buying handguns, and ask the obvious questions; is anyone in your home mentally incapacitated, do you have children living in your house.

The suicide issue isn't persuasive because anyone who really wants to commit suicide will find a way.

If someone is really concerned about violence in their home, get a dog, and if you're not satisfied with just a dog, buy a 410, while the intruder is busy with the dog get your shotgun, but if the dog is fairly large and loves the homeowner the shotgun probably is not necessary.

[GEO928]

Sox....

There’s a reasonable argument that the Second Amendment confers an individual right — to bear a musket.

please show us that passage in the constitution's 2nd amendment which uses the word "musket"......

and, this:

But if that law’s ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines had still been in effect, Adam Lanza, the gunman in Newtown, might have had to reload three times as often.

how long do you think it takes to press the release and drop the spent clip and then smack another loaded mag into the rifle....two seconds?

and, this.....another non-sequiter in the discussion about assault weapons and high capacity magazines:

Gun suicides (nearly 19,000 a year in the U.S.) outnumber gun murders (more than 11,000), and a gun in the home increases the risk that someone in the home will commit suicide. The reason is that suicide attempts with pills or razors often fail; with guns, they succeed.

Many people who takes pills or drugs to commit suicide have no intention of killing themselves....rather, the act is a CRY/PLEA FOR HELP....

a gun is chosen by someone who WANTS to kill themselves because it, unfortunately, is a very efficient choice.....and, most often it is NOT a rifle...

so, again....for the reasons above the statement made is emotional tugging with little relevance to the issue at hand....

the only relevant point in that article is one sentence:

The question isn’t whether to limit the right to bear arms, but where to draw the line.